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The political economy of workplace injury in Canada / / Bob Barnetson
| The political economy of workplace injury in Canada / / Bob Barnetson |
| Autore | Barnetson Bob <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athabasca University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 363.110971 |
| Collana | Labour Across Borders Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Industrial safety - Economic aspects - Canada
Industrial safety - Political aspects - Canada Industrial hygiene - Economic aspects - Canada Industrial accidents - Canada - Costs Occupational diseases - Canada - Costs Workers' compensation - Canada |
| Soggetto non controllato |
government
injury prevention work environments |
| ISBN |
1-282-85207-8
9786612852077 1-926836-01-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Perspectives on workplace injury -- Purpose of this book -- Preventing workplace injury -- Compensating workplace injury -- Major conclusions -- One Employment Relationships in Canada -- Employment in a capitalist economy -- The labour market and the wage-rate bargain -- The labour process and the wage-effort bargain -- Power and rules in employment -- The common law -- Changing definitions of work -- Workplace safety and the profit motive -- Compensation through the courts -- Alternatives to litigation -- Do employers intentionally transfer costs? -- Conclusion -- Two Preventing Workplace Injury -- Development of occupational health and safety in Canada -- Perspectives on risk -- Market model of occupational health and safety -- Inevitability and the careless worker -- The social construction of accidents -- Pressure for state regulation -- The Factory Acts -- Injury compensation -- Why workers' compensation? -- Partial self-regulation -- Hoggs Hollow and Elliot Lake -- The external responsibility system -- The internal responsibility system -- Canada's OHS system today -- Duties and obligations -- Health and safety standards -- External responsibility system -- Internal system and the three rights -- Partnership model and incentives -- Conclusion -- Three Critique of OHS in Canada -- Recognizing injury and hazards -- How many injuries? -- Who gets hurt affects injury recognition -- The type of injury and its cost also affect recognition -- Employers may impede injury recognition -- The social construction of injury and hazards -- Employer tactics in contesting injury recognition -- Perpetuating the careless worker myth -- Identifying occupational cancer -- Preventing occupational cancer -- Constructing cancer as a non-issue.
Conceptual models of injury -- Limits to the biomedical model -- Regulating workplace hazards -- Approaches to regulation -- Limits on regulation -- The internal responsibility system -- Knowledge is power? -- Joint health and safety committees -- The right to refuse -- Employer responses to refusals -- Refusal as a weak right -- Effectiveness of the internal system -- Exposure levels and threshold limit values -- Are exposure levels safe? -- Why do exposure levels always go down? -- Inspections and inspectors -- Bias in inspections -- The effect of orders -- Prosecution and fines -- Partnerships and the mantra of "safety pays" -- Creating evidence of safe workplaces -- Disabling injury rate and severity -- Measures as conceptual technologies -- Why use inadequate measures? -- Conclusion -- Four Political Economy of Preventing Workplace Injury -- Why regulate ineffectively? -- Context of state action -- Regulation of workplace injury -- Inadequate standards -- Regulation of hazards in the workplace -- Ignorant and reckless? -- Social sanction of workplace injury -- Ineffective penalties -- Why regulate ineffectively? -- How is this legitimized? -- Injury in the new economy -- Work intensification -- Precarious employment increases risks -- What do intensification and precarious employment tell us? -- Conclusion -- Five Compensation of Workplace Injury -- Workers' compensation in Canada -- Overview of workers' compensation -- Development of workers' compensation in Canada -- Workers' compensation as a compromise -- Injury recognition revisited -- Determining compensability -- "Arises and occurs" -- Balance of probabilities and presumptions -- Politics of injury recognition -- Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and causation -- Occupational diseases -- Limiting liability: Psychological injuries -- Chronic pain syndrome -- Conclusion. Six Worker Benefits and Claims Management -- Earnings-loss benefits -- Deeming earnings -- Permanent disabilities and the dual-award system -- Other benefits -- Vocational rehabilitation and early return to work -- Is early return to work a good idea? -- The political economy of ERTW -- Medical services -- Fatalities -- Funding workers' compensation -- Employer premiums -- Rising premiums -- Moral hazard -- Experience-rating schemes -- Effect of experience rating on injury frequency -- Effect of experience rating on injury duration -- Rationale for experience rating -- Conclusion -- Seven Managing Workers via Injury Compensation -- Claim adjudication and administration -- Impeding a shared understanding -- Mobilizing workers -- Role of trade unions -- Appeals -- Internal reviews and external appeals -- How appeal processes advantage employers -- Adversarialism in appeals -- Political economy of appeals -- Impact on workers -- Privatization and abolishment -- Argument for returning to tort -- Operation of tort-based compensation -- Comparing tort and workers' compensation -- Privatization -- Impact of privatization -- Who chooses the insurer? -- Cost savings under privatization -- Economic globalization as an explanation -- Managing worker demands -- Precarious employment -- Precarious work -- Precarious work and worker-related injuries -- Precarious work and workers' compensation -- Implications of precarious work for workers' compensation -- Conclusion -- Eight Conclusion -- Why are workers injured on the job? -- Why don't government injury-prevention efforts work? -- Do governments actually prioritize profit over safety? -- Why don't workers call "hooey" on this approach? -- Can workers protect themselves? -- Do safety incentives reduce injuries? -- But how does government legitimize prioritizing profit over safety?. Who benefits from injury compensation? And how? -- How does compensation legitimize limiting employer liability? -- Occupational disease as a microcosm -- So what? -- Are workers our most valuable resource? -- Is there really no such thing as an accident? -- The political economy of workplace injury -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141036703321 |
Barnetson Bob <1970->
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| Athabasca University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The political economy of workplace injury in Canada / / Bob Barnetson
| The political economy of workplace injury in Canada / / Bob Barnetson |
| Autore | Barnetson Bob <1970-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athabasca University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 363.110971 |
| Collana | Labour Across Borders Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Industrial safety - Economic aspects - Canada
Industrial safety - Political aspects - Canada Industrial hygiene - Economic aspects - Canada Industrial accidents - Canada - Costs Occupational diseases - Canada - Costs Workers' compensation - Canada |
| Soggetto non controllato |
government
injury prevention work environments |
| ISBN |
1-282-85207-8
9786612852077 1-926836-01-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Perspectives on workplace injury -- Purpose of this book -- Preventing workplace injury -- Compensating workplace injury -- Major conclusions -- One Employment Relationships in Canada -- Employment in a capitalist economy -- The labour market and the wage-rate bargain -- The labour process and the wage-effort bargain -- Power and rules in employment -- The common law -- Changing definitions of work -- Workplace safety and the profit motive -- Compensation through the courts -- Alternatives to litigation -- Do employers intentionally transfer costs? -- Conclusion -- Two Preventing Workplace Injury -- Development of occupational health and safety in Canada -- Perspectives on risk -- Market model of occupational health and safety -- Inevitability and the careless worker -- The social construction of accidents -- Pressure for state regulation -- The Factory Acts -- Injury compensation -- Why workers' compensation? -- Partial self-regulation -- Hoggs Hollow and Elliot Lake -- The external responsibility system -- The internal responsibility system -- Canada's OHS system today -- Duties and obligations -- Health and safety standards -- External responsibility system -- Internal system and the three rights -- Partnership model and incentives -- Conclusion -- Three Critique of OHS in Canada -- Recognizing injury and hazards -- How many injuries? -- Who gets hurt affects injury recognition -- The type of injury and its cost also affect recognition -- Employers may impede injury recognition -- The social construction of injury and hazards -- Employer tactics in contesting injury recognition -- Perpetuating the careless worker myth -- Identifying occupational cancer -- Preventing occupational cancer -- Constructing cancer as a non-issue.
Conceptual models of injury -- Limits to the biomedical model -- Regulating workplace hazards -- Approaches to regulation -- Limits on regulation -- The internal responsibility system -- Knowledge is power? -- Joint health and safety committees -- The right to refuse -- Employer responses to refusals -- Refusal as a weak right -- Effectiveness of the internal system -- Exposure levels and threshold limit values -- Are exposure levels safe? -- Why do exposure levels always go down? -- Inspections and inspectors -- Bias in inspections -- The effect of orders -- Prosecution and fines -- Partnerships and the mantra of "safety pays" -- Creating evidence of safe workplaces -- Disabling injury rate and severity -- Measures as conceptual technologies -- Why use inadequate measures? -- Conclusion -- Four Political Economy of Preventing Workplace Injury -- Why regulate ineffectively? -- Context of state action -- Regulation of workplace injury -- Inadequate standards -- Regulation of hazards in the workplace -- Ignorant and reckless? -- Social sanction of workplace injury -- Ineffective penalties -- Why regulate ineffectively? -- How is this legitimized? -- Injury in the new economy -- Work intensification -- Precarious employment increases risks -- What do intensification and precarious employment tell us? -- Conclusion -- Five Compensation of Workplace Injury -- Workers' compensation in Canada -- Overview of workers' compensation -- Development of workers' compensation in Canada -- Workers' compensation as a compromise -- Injury recognition revisited -- Determining compensability -- "Arises and occurs" -- Balance of probabilities and presumptions -- Politics of injury recognition -- Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and causation -- Occupational diseases -- Limiting liability: Psychological injuries -- Chronic pain syndrome -- Conclusion. Six Worker Benefits and Claims Management -- Earnings-loss benefits -- Deeming earnings -- Permanent disabilities and the dual-award system -- Other benefits -- Vocational rehabilitation and early return to work -- Is early return to work a good idea? -- The political economy of ERTW -- Medical services -- Fatalities -- Funding workers' compensation -- Employer premiums -- Rising premiums -- Moral hazard -- Experience-rating schemes -- Effect of experience rating on injury frequency -- Effect of experience rating on injury duration -- Rationale for experience rating -- Conclusion -- Seven Managing Workers via Injury Compensation -- Claim adjudication and administration -- Impeding a shared understanding -- Mobilizing workers -- Role of trade unions -- Appeals -- Internal reviews and external appeals -- How appeal processes advantage employers -- Adversarialism in appeals -- Political economy of appeals -- Impact on workers -- Privatization and abolishment -- Argument for returning to tort -- Operation of tort-based compensation -- Comparing tort and workers' compensation -- Privatization -- Impact of privatization -- Who chooses the insurer? -- Cost savings under privatization -- Economic globalization as an explanation -- Managing worker demands -- Precarious employment -- Precarious work -- Precarious work and worker-related injuries -- Precarious work and workers' compensation -- Implications of precarious work for workers' compensation -- Conclusion -- Eight Conclusion -- Why are workers injured on the job? -- Why don't government injury-prevention efforts work? -- Do governments actually prioritize profit over safety? -- Why don't workers call "hooey" on this approach? -- Can workers protect themselves? -- Do safety incentives reduce injuries? -- But how does government legitimize prioritizing profit over safety?. Who benefits from injury compensation? And how? -- How does compensation legitimize limiting employer liability? -- Occupational disease as a microcosm -- So what? -- Are workers our most valuable resource? -- Is there really no such thing as an accident? -- The political economy of workplace injury -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996213123403316 |
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Barnetson Bob <1970->
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| Athabasca University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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